Goldie Boutilier returns with elegant lyric video for new single “THE ALLIGATOR”
Goldie Boutilier - THE ALLIGATOR (Official Lyric Video)
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Goldie Boutilier is back — and “The Alligator” arrives exactly the way her best songs do: propulsive, a little feral, built around a central image that refuses to let go.
The song opens with something stirring in the sub-subconscious and ends with the feeling of driving headlong into a storm. By the time the chorus lands, the argument is clear. Cage the disease, not the alligator. It is a line that hits differently every time you hear it — a rallying cry for anyone who has ever been taught to swim in a pool of gasoline, who only finds peace in the chaos. Boutilier is writing about survival as a temperament, not an achievement. About being misunderstood so completely that the misunderstanding becomes its own kind of armour.
The lyric video matches the song perfectly — spare, direct, and entirely focused on the words. On a track this lyrically driven, that is exactly the right call.
“The Alligator” follows a run of singles that have been building steadily toward something larger. Boutilier’s alt-pop and alt-country instincts are still present, but this one sits closer to the edge — rawer, more urgent, more alive. The alligator, as she puts it, is simply misunderstood.
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Got a ticker rolling in my sub-subconscious
Win or lose, give me the bad news
As the storm rolls in
I go out driving
And it crossed my mind
What a fine, fine time to be alive
Everyone’s shaking
But I’m not afraid (yeah)
Cage the disease
Not the alligator
Heard an old billionaire
Say it just isn’t fair
Trade it all in, and start over again in his twenties
And they taught me to swim
In a pool of gasoline
So what’d you expect? I was always meant
To run on empty
Cracks in the ground
Palm trees burn down
But I’m only at peace
In the chaos
Cage the disease
Cage the disease
Not the alligator
Cage the disease
Cage the disease
Not the alligator
(Cage the disease)
(Cage the disease)
(Cage the disease)
(Cage the disease)
(Cage the disease)
(Cage the disease)
Cracks in the ground
Palm trees burn down
But I’m only at peace
In the chaos
